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Letters: 'Evangelicals' not so moral after all

Montgomery Advertiser
Published 12:35 p.m. CT March 29, 2018

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Today, the big news is that Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Executive Committee, has resigned his position because of a "morally inappropriate relationship." We aren't told what this relationship involved.

Does it occur to those who call themselves "evangelicals," especially the 81 percent who voted for Trump and Pence, that all the false prophets who are in bed with Trump and Pence are in a "morally inappropriate relationship"? Within the past week, Rev. Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, was on Fox News trying to deflect news about the murder of 17 children in Florida. Jeffress says that, instead of reasonable gun laws, we need to teach the Ten Commandments.

Does Jeffress not realize that Trump, whom he worships, has violated most of the commandments? And, within the past week, the moral and intellectual giants in the Alabama Legislature have decided to have a referendum on posting the Ten Commandments in public buildings, including schools. More money wasted on lawsuits.

Anger over kneeling NFL players is misplaced

Occasionally, I still hear comments from people who are outraged that some athletes chose to kneel during the playing of the national anthem. And, again, I wonder why they aren’t outraged when unarmed black men are killed by police officers.

It happened once again — this time in Sacramento. Two police officers, while searching for a vandal responsible for breaking windows, killed an unarmed black man, in his grandparents’ backyard, because they mistook his cellphone for a gun.

Jared Loughner shot Congresswoman Gabby Gifford and 18 others, killing six, and he was taken alive by police. James Holmes killed 12 people in a Colorado movie theater, and shot 58 others, and he was taken alive. Dylann Roof killed nine people in a South Carolina church, and wounded three others, and he was taken alive.

It’s ironic that white men, who actually commit mass murders, can somehow be arrested alive by the police. But black men, who did nothing wrong, somehow end up shot and killed.

Alabama Legislature ranks 50th in bravery

Three weeks ago, following the school shooting in Birmingham, I lamented that we are slaughtering each other. Last week, in the wake of Alabama House commitee members skipping debate on gun control proposals, I lamented the lack of political courage of these elected officials, who ran promising to “fight for us,” but who were no-shows when it counted. The children we are “protecting” have showed up demanding action, but our adults with authority to do something have walked away. Does the Alabama Legislature rank 50th in guts?

Nelson Smith

Montgomery

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